Poll: Alpha Protocol, is it worth it?
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Do you think theres any chance they'll release a patch for the PC version, to fix all the bugs and everything?
To be fair, if you focus on a heavy combat role, the game doesn't become unplayable, it just becomes much more combat oriented. So it's theoretically possible to screw yourself by killing loads of people, and not taking points in the weapon skills. I say, theoretically, because I haven't found this to be the case.Ultratwinkie said:
EDIT: Also one more thing. Buy intelligence before you go on a mission. These shift the mission in your favor heavily if you take time to prep the mission. Sometimes pieces of intel can unlock new dialog, or new paths through the level, other times they'll reduce the enemy presence or add additional weapons to the level that you can nab and use.
Alpha Protocol is probably the most underrated release of the year so far.
You like RPGs with a lot of cover based shooting a la Mass Effect? Get it, after putting some skills in firearms, the combat is actually enjoyable instead of inaccurate and dumb.
You like a good story? Get it. Maybe it's not the best story ever, but there are many interesting plot twist, some of the deserving 'Holy Shit, what did you just said?' reaction, like
Pure brilliance.
You like the mechanic of making choices, but you feel, most of the releases are only hiding their limited options? Get it, here the choices actually matter. And I'm not only talking about the major ones. The way you are talking with people to like or hate you can be decisive as well...
Overall - get it. I'm playing it since release over and over again, saying 'Fuck you!' to other great games waiting for me like Red Dead Redemption.
It's really worth at least trying.
You like RPGs with a lot of cover based shooting a la Mass Effect? Get it, after putting some skills in firearms, the combat is actually enjoyable instead of inaccurate and dumb.
You like a good story? Get it. Maybe it's not the best story ever, but there are many interesting plot twist, some of the deserving 'Holy Shit, what did you just said?' reaction, like
Thorton fighting Chinese agent Omen Deng to prevent the assassination of president of Taiwan, Ronald Sung... Only it turns out, Deng actually is also trying to protect president, and has an intel about you trying to kill Sung. In the meantime, the real assassin makes an attempt, and it will succeed, unless you did precautions about it earlier in the game
You like the mechanic of making choices, but you feel, most of the releases are only hiding their limited options? Get it, here the choices actually matter. And I'm not only talking about the major ones. The way you are talking with people to like or hate you can be decisive as well...
Like with Marburg. Heh... ;]
Overall - get it. I'm playing it since release over and over again, saying 'Fuck you!' to other great games waiting for me like Red Dead Redemption.
It's really worth at least trying.
Love the Manly Guys Doing Manly Things DP.Sex Rex said:
OT: The Game looks pretty damn Decent. Funny too.
Allow me to come to your aid, good sir! I got the game second day out and, as such, feel qualified to give you my personal verdict.Fidelias said:
"Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrmm... kinda?"
Here, I'll list the good and the bad and you can figure out yourself.
The Good:
Great and interesting story well told,
Choices make a difference as soon as you start playing the game which is a nice touch,
Not too heavy on the RPG side of things (good or bad depending on your preference),
Dialogue system is very well done,
Mini-games are alright.
The Bad:
Actual gameplay is quite poor,
Dreadful AI,
No mini-map,
Graphically looks very dated,
Full of bugs (sometimes freezes too).
So there you go. Weigh them up and decide yourself. I've mostly enjoyed it. And I'm still playing it. Which means I'm blowing off Split/Second to keep going, so it must be doing something right.
Westbridge himself says so during orientation - there are no good or bad choices, only results.Ultratwinkie said:
Either never give Shepherd Spectre status, or have the Council believe him about something, anything. They give him a massive position of trust and then never trust him, despite proof that he's right more often than the Council - nonsense.lacktheknack said:
Remove a large chunk of Noveria. Everything between the offices and the hot labs destroys the pacing.
Remove Saren's mega- jumpy Husk form. Either make him a slow, tough boss (to complement the previous fast boss fight) or have a final horde of Geth. Removing the entire "the final boss isn't dead!" shtick is a positive step forward for games in general.
Pace out the character deaths. Wrex was well handled, but the Aidan/Ashley an hour later was arbitrary and added nothing to the plot. A death on the last level would have highlighted the danger of the mission, and the Normandy clearly has time to pick up both in Saren's lab.
I know they were shooting for mind control, but Matriarch Benezia's sudden 'break' from Sovreign's Indoctrination would have been more believable if she'd shown signs of it slipping instead of leaving the revelations until after she's been shot. Even just a change in tone as you fight her would work.
That's a few off the top of my head. Mass Effecr was good, but it wasn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination...
EDIT - It's massively, massively flawd, but worth a play. I'd say Alpha Protocol was a solid rental.
Most people I know who have actually played it not just read reviews say that it is, and that the reviewers were possibly not very clever (can't recognise conefire despite every shooter ever using it, etc.)
Personally, I'm waiting for a price drop.
Personally, I'm waiting for a price drop.
Mini maps aren't needed in a game like Alpha Protocol.Ultratwinkie said:
Like almost every game ever, if you get lost you just need to follow the old maxim of "Seek the Path of Most Resistance"... which is to say, where ever your enemies are is where you want to go because they exist to stand between you and your objective. It's when you can't find your enemies that you pull up your map screen.
You should probably state what platform you're playing on.jackanderson said:
If someone was looking to buy this for the PC I would recommend that they do so. If they were looking to buy it for a console I'd tell them to stop bothering their betters and go eat some tasty lead paint (I kid, I kid)... or possibly, while not being an arsehole, tell them I have no idea because there seems to be quite a difference between PC and console versions and they should go eat some tasty lead paint.
Watch a friggin' Let's Play. See the game actually in action and then decide if it looks like something you'd enjoy.
